heretical
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Heretical as it sounds, comic dialogue, not song, is this production’s strongest suit.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2021
Heretical as it sounds, this revisionist take on the revered literary figure captures the essence of a woman born before her time, struggling for independence, driven by the need to write.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2019
Philip Ball's Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People traces the desire to make people back to medieval alchemists.
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2011
Heretical books were sought out and destroyed with similar rigour.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Heretical books, including translations of the Bible, were to be surrendered to the bishop.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn
Vocabulary lists containing heretical
The Handmaid's Tale
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Purple Hibiscus
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